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Alex Nuyles

basketball player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ16232825
Source-derived summary

Alexander Nuyles (born July 25, 1989) is a Filipino former professional basketball player who last played for the Bicol Volcanoes of the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL). He was drafted 9th overall by the Rain or Shine Elasto Painters in the 2013 PBA draft. He was left unprotected by Rain or Shine Elasto Painters in the 2014 PBA Expansion Draft. He was then selected by the Blackwater Elite with their third pick in the expansion draft.

In March 2015, Nuyles was traded to Kia (now Mahindra) for Reil Cervantes.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Alex Nuyles” as basketball player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Alex, Nuyles and basketball.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1989, 2013, 2014, 2015—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1989-07-25. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Alex, Nuyles and basketball providing the first useful test.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16232825. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1989, 2013, 2014 and 2015.

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This entry incorporates text from Alex Nuyles” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.